The Untold War: Inside the Hearts, Minds and Souls of Our Soldiers

All arms of the US Military are experiencing an alarming increase in soldier suicides which can only be described as an epidemic. If you combine both active service and recently retired soldiers, across all sections of the US military 6,500 soldiers took their own lives in 2012. Dr Nancy Sherman is a moral philosopher and an expert on trauma, resilience and military ethics. She has interviewed hundreds of soldiers to explore the inner moral dilemmas soldiers confront. A moral injury is not so much separate from PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), as focused specifically on the moral dimensions of psychological injuries. Nancy Sherman has just been awarded the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship to further research how soldiers make peace with their wartime experiences.

In this episode

As the number of American soldier suicides rise to alarming levels, a moral philosopher and trauma expert explores the inner dilemmas faced by soldiers, and how the US military is responding to this epidemic.